Coun Keith Knaggs, letter to the Gazette, June 4, 2008: “I claim a right of reply to the self-important Paul Andrews”.
Coun Knaggs, ditto May 13, 2009: “I am most disappointed that Mr King doesn’t know who the district council leader is, and confused me with a committee chairman.”
The first letter is useful, discussing Pickering’s (lack of) flood defences and central government’s complete control over local government policy in this respect. In the second letter, having established his very important position in the Ryedale community, Coun Knaggs proceeds to belt poor Mr King (and by implication all the rest of us who are not necessarily happy with all of his policies) for “rubbishing” his “up-market food store” idea and for “scare-mongering” over the idea of restoring Malton to its role as capital of Ryedale.
Mr King was, in fact, guilty of neither of these sins, but was (see the Gazette’s editorial of May 13), merely exercising his democratic right to “engage with politics”. If only more voters (particularly tax-payers) would do this more often!
Roland Carter, Helmsley
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